Himes J H, Bouchard C
Am J Public Health. 1985 Sep;75(9):1076-9. doi: 10.2105/ajph.75.9.1076.
The 1983 Metropolitan weight-height tables include elbow breadth as a measure of frame size. Such tables assume that frame measures provide an estimate of fat free mass and have little or no associations with body fat. These assumptions were evaluated in 437 Canadian adults for six frame measures by their associations with total body measures of fat and fat free mass. All six frame measures were similarly correlated with fat free mass, even when associations with height were taken into account. Wrist and ankle breadths were not associated with total body fat, while shoulder, elbow, hip, and knee breadths were so associated. Thus wrist and ankle breadths satisfy the assumptions inherent in the frame-weight-height tables better than elbow breadth and the other frame measures investigated.
1983年的大都市体重-身高表将肘宽作为体格大小的一项衡量指标。此类表格假定体格测量能估算去脂体重,且与体脂几乎没有关联。通过将六种体格测量指标与体脂和去脂体重的全身测量指标之间的关联,对437名加拿大成年人的这些假定进行了评估。即使考虑到与身高的关联,所有六种体格测量指标与去脂体重的相关性都相似。腕宽和踝宽与全身脂肪无关,而肩宽、肘宽、髋宽和膝宽则与全身脂肪有关。因此,与肘宽及所研究的其他体格测量指标相比,腕宽和踝宽更符合体格-体重-身高表中固有的假定。